Hosiery blank



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' f HosIERY BLANK Filed Dee. 27. 1937 Patented Dec. 24, 1940 HOSIERY BLANK Hellmuth Hppner," Einsiedel, near Chemnitz,

. Germany, assigner to the firm: Maschinenfabrik Einsiedel G. m. b. H., Einsiedel, near Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany Application December 27, 1937, Serial No. 181,915 In Germany February 27, 1937 2 Claims.A (Cl. 66-184) This invention relates to a stocking blank formed by a method of making hosiery, as described in American Patent No. 2,027,781 and British Patent 425,584, and constitutes an improvement thereof.

According to this known method, the leg pa and the foot part are made in one operation on the same machine, whereupon the fabric at the points where the heel portions are to be fit in is transferred to the needles of a separate knitting frame or heel machine.` n

If the foot part is broader than the last courses of the leg forming the high heel the method referred to provides for knitting on auxiliary fabric parts at both sides of the last twenty to thirty courses of the leg part to make the leg part as wide as the foot part and to insure proper setting on of the first course of the foot part. When the stocking is completed, these auxiliary fabric pieces are cut off.

In producing the auxiliary fabric pieces' it was customary hitherto suddenly or gradually to extend the path of the ground thread guide to the extent of- 'the width of the auxiliary fabric pieces,

whilst the guide of the reinforcing thread cntinued to operate onlygwithinv the width of the high heel. This procedure involves the drawback that within range of the auxiliary fabric pieces ladders could easily develop and run into the adjacent foot or heel parts, whereby the stocking fabric was rendered useless.

The invention aims at eliminating thisdefect by causing ladders developing in the auxiliary fabric pieces to run outwardly out of the fabric and no into the foot or heel parts.

A further object of the invention is to provide separating lines between ,the leg part and the auxiliary fabric pieces so as to permit accurate and convenient cutting off of the auxiliary fabric pieces.

According to the invention, a few loops are rst newly set on at both sides of the leg part,wherev upon superposed meshes of one of the next courses are transferred outwardly to the extent of at least one needle and this is continued in the following courses until thewales of the meshes of the auxil- Aiary pieces that have been set on first are continued up to the outer edge of the auxiliary pieces.

When laddersydevelop in auxiliary piecesproduced as described, they will run in the obliquely that are on the needles in outward direction so as to obtainbesides the round wales of the high heel a number of openings which form an easily recognizable line between the leg part and the auxiliary pieces and thereby considerably facilitate 5 accurate cutting off of the auxiliary pieces.

By way of example, the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 shows a leg part with worked on foot part produced according to the new method and Fig. 2 lo is a diagram showing the formation of meshes in an'auxiliary piece and the adjoining portions of the leg and foot parts.

a is the reinforced high heel portion of the leg' part, b the reinforced foot part, c the known 15 separating course between the foot part and the high heel and d designates the auxiliary fabric pieces.

As indicated in Fig. 2, at the beginning of the working of the auxiliary piece two meshes e are '20 newly set on: 'I'he two meshes of the superposed course f have been transferred outwardly to the extent of one needle. In the third course a mesh g is `newly set on again, and themeshes h of the fourth course are transferred outwardly again to 25 the extent of' one needle. In the followingco'urses i,.k, m one mesh isnewly set on, and the meshes of the courses n, o, p' are transferred outwardly to the extent of one needle. In the course m the desired width of the auxiliary piece is attained andthe thread is henceforth not guided outwardly any farther, though outward transferring continues every other course until the wale of the innermost newly set on mesh e has reached the outer edge of the auxiliary piece, as indicated by 1 the mesh e".

As the thread is not guided farther in outward direction after the course m, the outer meshes q of the outwardly transferred courses float, so. to speak, ifi the air. The associated wales terminate there, and a ladder developing therein cannot run farther.

As shown in Figi 2, the transfer extends every time to all meshes of the auxiliary pieces that are on the needles. 'I'he openings r produced by I transferring are thus positioned on the inner edge of the. auxiliary pieces near the outer wales of the high heel and form the separating lines tofacll.- tate the removal of the auxiliary pieces.

The stocking blank may be formed in many r1" different ways. It is possible for instance to transfer in outward direction in every course instead of in every other one. When the first meshes e, e of the auxiliary pieces are set on, additional `meshes may be dispensed with and the thread l,

guided outwardly only to such an extent that the last mesh of the preceding outwardly transferred course is reached. Furthermore, the auxiliary fabric pieces may be made broader than required by the width of the foot part, so that the wales of the newly set on meshes terminate not at the extreme edge of the auxiliary pieces but at the place where the uppermost course of the auxiliary pieces projects beyond the width of the foot part.l

I claim:

1. A at knit full-fashioned stocking blank, the leg and foot of which are knit as a unit which includes spliced high heel portions. the upper part of each of which extends to the selvedge and the lower part of each of which is separated from the selvedge by a progressively widened section of un reinforced fabric terminating at the lower end of said high heel portions and there giving to the blank an over-al1 width equal to that of the adjacent end of the foot portion.

2. A at knit full-fashioned stocking-blank, the leg and foot of which are knit as a unit which includes spliced high heel portions, the upper part lof each of which extends to the selvedge and the lower part of each of which is separated from the selvedge by a progressively widened section of un-1 reinforced fabric terminating at the lower end of said high heel portions and there giving to the blankv an over-al1 width equal to the adjacentend of the foot portion, and wales of the rst meshes of said widened sections being continued beyond the outer edge o f the blank.

HEILMUTH HPPNm. 

